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Mohammad Mosaferi
Environment
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Open AccessInterplay of arsenic exposure and cigarette smoking on oxidative DNA damage in healthy males
Long-term exposure to inorganic arsenic (As) and cigarette smoking has been associated with adverse health effects such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease. Oxidative stress is one of th...
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Spatial trend and probabilistic health risk assessment of heavy metals, nitrate, and fluoride in groundwater resources, West Azerbaijan province, Iran
The quality of water resources used for drinking and their health effects is vitally important. The present study investigated the concentrations of F−, NO3−, and metal elements like Hg, Mn, As, and Pb in the gro...
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Optimizing ozone dose and contact time for removal of antibiotic-resistant P. aeruginosa, A. baumannii, E. coli, and associated resistant genes in effluent of an activated sludge process in a municipal WWTP
This study aimed to investigate the impact of ozonation on inactivation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) including E. coli, P. aeruginosa, and A. baumannii, as well as on removal of 16S-rRNA gene and their ...
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Health and ecological risks assessment of heavy metals and metalloids in surface sediments of Urmia Salt Lake, Northwest of Iran
Urmia Lake, in the northwest of Iran, is the largest body of saline water in the Middle East, which has been desiccated in recent decades. To investigate the pollution status and ecological-health risks of hea...
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Environmental impact assessment of salt harvesting from the salt lakes
Urmia Saline Lake, USL which is registered as an international park by the United Nations, has suffered hypersalinity and serious dryness in recent years. Increasing the dryness trend has been led to a great t...
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Temporospatial variation and health risk assessment of trihalomethanes (THMs) in drinking water (northwest Iran)
Trihalomethanes (THMs) are one of the most common classes of disinfection by-products. In this study, the temporospatial trends and health risks due to exposure to THMs in the Tabriz water distribution network...
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Investigation of aerosols pollution across the eastern basin of Urmia lake using satellite remote sensing data and HYSPLIT model
Desiccation of the world’s second hypersaline lake, Lake Urmia, has drawn attention toward the feasibility of particle emissions from the lakebed to downwind regions. Therefore, this research was conducted to ...
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Statistical analysis of arsenic contamination in drinking water in a city of Iran and its modeling using GIS
In this research, probable arsenic contamination in drinking water in the city of Ardabil was studied in 163 samples during four seasons. In each season, sampling was carried out randomly in the study area. Re...
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National and sub-national drinking water fluoride concentrations and prevalence of fluorosis and of decayed, missed, and filled teeth in Iran from 1990 to 2015: a systematic review
Fluoride intake, fluorosis, and dental caries could affect quality of life and disease burden worldwide. As a part of the National and Sub-national Burden of Disease Study (NASBOD) in Iran, we conducted a syst...
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Effect of exposure to O3, NO2, and SO2 on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease hospitalizations in Tabriz, Iran
Air pollution in cities is a serious environmental problem especially in the develo** countries. We examined the associations between gaseous pollutants and hospitalizations for chronic obstructive pulmonary...
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Open AccessQuality modeling of drinking groundwater using GIS in rural communities, northwest of Iran
Given the importance of groundwater resources in water supply, this work aimed to study quality of drinking groundwater in rural areas in Tabriz county, northwest of Iran. Thirty two groundwater samples from d...
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Open AccessRemoval of Arsenic (III, V) from aqueous solution by nanoscale zero-valent iron stabilized with starch and carboxymethyl cellulose
In this work, synthetic nanoscale zerovalent iron (NZVI) stabilized with two polymers, Starch and Carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) were examined and compared for their ability in removing As (III) and As (V) from...
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The Source of Natural Arsenic Contamination in Groundwater, West of Iran
Geochemical characteristics and arsenic content of groundwater in the Kurdistan and West Azerbaijan provinces (west of Iran) were analyzed. Groundwater is the local source of drinking water and travertine spri...
